Could an 8-Year-Old Beat Up the President?
5/8/202619 min
Sarah Longwell and Catherine Rampell react to the absurd new YouGov poll asking whether Americans think they—or even an 8-year-old boy—could beat Donald Trump in a fight.
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First 90 secondsSarah Longwell· Host0:00
Hello, everyone. Sarah Longwell here, publisher of The Bulwark, and I'm joined by Katherine Rampell, who writes our incredible Receipts newsletter. If you're not reading this all the time, go check it out. But we want to talk about a very non-economic [laughs] topic. But because we're, we're polling people, you and I, or we digest polls, we think about these numbers, [laughs] we decided we wanted to get on and talk about a new YouGov poll, which asked a, a serious sample, 2,609 Americans, that is a good sample size, whether they thought an eight-year-old boy, a typical American, or themselves could win a physical fight with Donald Trump. Katherine, I don't know why YouGov decided to ask this question.
Katherine Rampell· Guest0:43
Oh, I do.
Sarah Longwell· Host0:44
I wonder if they're try- Okay.
Katherine Rampell· Guest0:45
Do you know- Tell me why.
Sarah Longwell· Host0:45
Go ahead ...
Katherine Rampell· Guest0:45
you don't know the background? Because Trump was at some sort of presidential fitness test boosting event, and he, like, asked an eight-year-old boy if he thought that he could beat him up, something like that.
Speaker 21:00
You think you can take me in a fight? [laughs] [laughs] I think you...
Donald Trump· Soundbite1:06
Senior.
Speaker 21:06
I think you could. [laughs] Hey, that would be embarrassing, wouldn't it?
Katherine Rampell· Guest1:08
[laughs] So it was Trump who, you know, threw down the, the gauntlet to begin with, and then YouGov was like, "Let's see what America thinks," because that's what YouGov does.
Sarah Longwell· Host1:17
Oh my gosh, I had no idea.
Katherine Rampell· Guest1:20
Yeah.
Sarah Longwell· Host1:20
I thought somebody was just like, "Let's just... You know what'd be funny? Just to see whether an eight-year-old could beat Trump in a fist fight." [laughs] I was like, "Who comes up with these poll questions?" [laughs] I thought, "Well, maybe there's, like,